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I started evony as a non-coiner. I finished my gear on my first server by farming materials and winning them (or cents) on the wheel. Toward the last few months of my time on NA29, I started to buy a couple packs here and there so I could port around and buy excals. Finding that spending a few bucks here and there made the game more fun, I grew to accept that coining wasn't a crutch when done judiciously. I left that server and started a new one, spending more at the outset so I could finish my gear quickly and get to the port around and break stuff stage sooner. It's a war game and that's the fun bit.
I am about $400 in to NA37 now and I spend $30 every six weeks or so, more during promotional events. However, even having spent as much (or based on perspective, little) as I have, I still depended on my daily 21 amulets because I won as many cents from the wheel as I had purchased. So for me, the amulets still enhance my gameplay even though I do spend some money.
So having laid all that out, the move by Evony to remove amulets as a Facebook gift under the guise of making gameplay more fair has made a decision for me. Namely, NA37 is my last server. I will not spend twice as much as I have spent on 37 because the value is not there for me. If anything, Evony has achieved the opposite of what they claim to have set out to do. Non-spenders and moderate spenders are now at more of a disadvantage to the heavy coiners because now it's harder to finish gear, get ports, and useful strats such as E&Es and Sow Spies.
I understand and appreciate that Evony is a for-profit entity however my gut feeling is that this move will alienate players such as myself and drive us to a different game. How much of Evony's total revenue is derived from this demographic is unknown to me however I would guess that the majority of total spending is done by us and not the mega coiners who are dropping $10K+.
I do also expect another unintended negative consequence of this move by Evony and that is an increased use of bots. In order for people to farm the needed materials for gear, use of a bot will likely become mandatory, further frustrating gameplay.
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